• Rfactor F1 2002 Mod

The younger ones in the gaming community will hardly remember that this game even exists, I can hardly remember any game which is (nearly) 10 years old or older and is still in use in such a professional way as F1C is. Of course there are a lot of games which are used at retro games LAN parties or whatever.

But F1C is still used in leagues, it's still improved and still there are people which release Mods for it. Of course the community was bigger once and the Mods came out of the pipeline nearly every week, but that there are still people on it is really impressing. To be honest, we could say that F1C was a milestone for the gaming community.

1. Info On F1 mods. Home; News; F1 Challenge; F1 2002. This is a F1 mod that adds the complete Formula One 1991 season to your game. 1995 CrashKing F1 Mod.
2. The EA Sports F1 series consists of six racing simulation games based on Formula One motorsport. The games were released annually between 2000 and 2003, stopped.

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Since then the popularity of Modding, especially in Racing raised into somewhere Felix Baumgartner only could dream of. And for the milestone itself it dropped deeper then Felix Baumgartner could dream of too.

But why F1C was such a milestone, what lead into the popularity of F1C? Why it's all gone and where will it lead? Let's go back on Day Zero. A game called 'F1 Challenge 99-02' was released on June 23rd for PC by the gaming giant EA Sports. Developed by ISI, a leading studio in racing games and a big advertising program in Europe it was long expected. And when it was there, finally, it fulfilled the the expectations in a enormous way.

IGN gave it as rating 90% of 100, German GameStar Magazine gave it 89% of 100. The Graphics were once again a little bit improved compared to prequel F1 2002, the physics were absolutely realistic and the AI behavior broke all records. Back in these days F1C was THE racing game ever. And the success of it raised. A modding team called 'RH', known from F1 2002 already which brought some of the original game developers together, released their F1 2003 mod on July 30th 2003.

It was probably the fastest released mod in a racing game ever. Another group, CTDP, followed with their F1 2003 mod in January 2004.

The first modding Team battle ever raised. RH, Quality vs. The community nearly raised a war about which one must be prefered. While CTDP had a bit better quality, RH was made for the slower PCs. CTDP gained the nickname 'Crash to Desktop Project' while RH succeeded a bit more with their 2003 Mod. But it all turned in 2004. While RH struggled to release their F1 2004 Mod and has not released it until April 2005, CTDP released their 2004 masterpiece already in November 2004.

The success of CTDP F1 2004 was incredible. With their own ingame menu in carbon style and a complete new level of car modelling, texture quality and level of details they made it finally to a highly respected modding team. When finally RH came up with nearly the same quality of cars and a new made in game Menu no one really cared. And the success of F1C was at it's peak. August 31, 2005 the unofficial sequel to F1C came out, rFactor. Developed by ISI too, it brought a complete new game engine (the legendary isiMotor2 engine), a whole new level of graphics and physics as well as new options in modding. It was absolutely clear that this is the new leading racing game.

But because it came too late in 2005, the big modding teams as RH and CTDP continued Modding for F1C. CTDP released again their F1 2005 Mod before RH at November 26, 2005. RH followed on March 05, 2006. This time the modding teams had a draw. While CTDP was indeed the mod with the better quality it had no chance to survive against RH in the aspect of running smooth and nice on every PC.

And in late 2006 a third concurrent shown up, the underdogs from SRM with their 2005 Mod. A great, but heavily underrated Mod by the way, which (except of the Helmets) had the same quality as RHs 2005 mod. As it was clear that rFactor will take over now the dominating role F1C had in racing games for at least two years the big Teams made their step over to rF too. CTDP and RH tried it, CTDP released their F1 2005 for rF on August 7, 2006 while RH came to an abrupt end.

They raised again in 2008 when GGSF1 released his F1 2007 mod on the base of RH 2005 for F1C. But the original RH quitted long before. CTDP struggled to make it to rFactor as well. The F1 2006 mod came one year too late, in 2008. Nowadays they are struggling even for members. And that was the chance for F1C to raise again.

A guy with the legendary name CrashKing released his F1 1996 mod alone. And let his 1995 Mod follow after it. The Turbo Mega Mod was released, and much more mods followed. The community changed for the first time. Now the dominating Teams, RH and CTDP, are gone and the community itself was now under the pressure of releasing Mods. Some of them raised themselves to a legendary status like CK did and others failed. But the long awaited F1 Mods never came.

There was no particular reason for it. Teams like VirtuaLM and SimBin formated themselves and made their way in the GT and Le Mans classes, GMT brought a DTM Mod and a WTCC mod followed too. Pre-1999 Mods were released really fast, Racesimulations became the new centre of F1C modding. But nobody except of GGSF1 tried to make an F1 mod. The leechers raised. A dominating role in the last and still ongoing era of F1C was the leechers era. F1Mania released their CTDP F1 2006 conversion in 2007 without permission and since then the leeching teams were formed as mushrooms coming out of the ground.

HLT as one of the biggest, VMT, SMT, VB, F1HU, KB, KC, AMT, SL, LMD. Especially since 3DSimEd allowed it to convert Codemasters F1 Cars in an easy way in 2010 the leechers were on a pretty good way to ruin the game and bury it after seven years. But then one man came and saved it: Armos. He was once a leecher as well, but finally decided to make a legal F1 2009 mod. To be honest, his cars were not the best in quality at the first release.

But he raised F1C for a yet last time. He contacted GGSF1 to build an F1 2009 mod within the base of GGSF1s 2007 Mod and finally released it in 2010. A 2008, 2010 and 2011 mod followed. JasonXP brought us the 2006 Season and David Marques finally completed the gap of missing cars from 1989 to 1994.

Finally we were able to play all F1 Seasons from 1979 to 2011 onwards. The probably biggest amount of Seasons a game will ever have!

But the success of Armos' (and others) F1 mods has not stopped at F1 only, Carlos12295cf released his GP2 2005-2007 Seasons and 2004 F3000 mod while a GP3 mod is underway since then. Things looked promising. Then the shock: The centre of F1C modding, Racesimulations.com, closed it's gates on December 5, 2012. Armos has gone too in July before, leaving an unfinished F1 2012 mod and a NASCAR 2011 mod. The community was dead.

For the first time ever the F1C community was not able to communicate with each other at a central site. Several Racesimulations.com replacements raised and finally Race4Sim made it, starting on February 1st 2013 as a new centre for F1C. Even if the leechers continue to do their work and even if R4S was forced to set up new permission rules, F1C is alive - again.

And will make it to it's 10th anniversary for sure. Not because it is still the best game out there, definitely not. But because of some man which brought it back from nowhere again and again. Because of people who love it and live it. Because of people which dedicate their whole free time to it, because of moderators which patently showed people what is right or wrong, because of people paying whole sites to let it be alive.

Let's be honest, the chance of F1C getting it's 20th anniversary with a community which is that big is pretty small. I'll doubt in a serious way that F1C will still be improved in 2023 as it's done today. I guess I will still play it, but I'm also sure the mods will stop once.

Maybe not in the next few years, but in 2023. We should thank all the people silently which had done so much for F1C and play it. As long as Windows can support it, because they gave us a lot. They gave us modding as it is nowadays, aiming for perfection. They showed us that still a nearly 10 year old game can be amazing. They gave us the biggest content a racing game will ever have.

They formed EA Sports' F1 Challenge 2013. Started with F1C 99-02 and i think it was the 2005 mod that was my first ever mod install to any game. 6 years later and i'm a modder myself (currently transferring to FPS games until rF2 and/or GTR3 is fully released) and i owe a TON of thanks to the original modders. The work they did back then has made the next gen modders job sooo much easier, without that headstart i doubt that we would've even dreamed to start doing it ourselves. I think i can extend that thanks in behalf of the whole BTB community. Hi RD/All, I haven't logged in here for a very long time although I visit this great site for a read on the latest news/Forums every single day Anyway, when I saw the subject I just had to comment as I am always a fan of anything designed by ISI (My current favourite Sim is of course Rfactor 2) and I also have great fun on Quick Races etc with SimRaceway (Based on ISI's Rfactor 1). I also remember F1C with great fondness and I still have the original boxed CD too and I also own the boxed F1 2000/2001/2002 That said, I also seem to recall pretty rough and often savage AI back then lol which would rear end you without a second thought and often weren't very aware of you either (RF1 AI could be the same lol).

I also remember my 'PC' at that time wasn't quite 'up to it' and I had to turn down a LOT of the GFX settings for it to run very smoothly! I may be being a little picky here but I go back way further than the F1C era with computers and SCGT (Sports Car GT, released 1998 and also by ISI) which I also still have the boxed copy of, was the one that really got modding started in any BIG way in Race Sims/Games Anyone remember those days with modders like BassGuy etc etc? Anyway, great to see F1C still going quite strong 10 years on, and although I have been tempted to install it MANY times just to remember those days I haven't as yet. Maybe this great article will finally make me dust off the old box and remind myself what it was, and still is all about Great Read and Regards from, Andy.

Hi, I was tired last night when I wrote my comment and not thinking straight lol. I just realised that even before SCGT, modding was already well underway in Viper Racing and a little after that NASCAR Heat!! I go back further (I'm 48 yrs old lol) and fondly remember IndyCar Racing etc.

Anyone old enough here to remember the fun we had with Viper Racing and NASCAR Heat? NH had really good physics for the time and some great tracks/mods were made for it including one of the best (Euro Style) Truck mods I've ever driven Amazing engine sounds just like the Trucks (Artics) I used to drive in my real job. Only thing with NH was the physics were of course really designed for only turning LEFT lol so it wasn't perfect but still great fun!

Now, where did I put that copy of F1C.I feel a bit of nostalgia coming on Regards, Andy.

Contents. Early roots and arcade games The roots of Formula One games can be traced back to the 1970s, with arcade games such as which depicted F1-like cars going on a race track. However, the first successful Formula One game in arcade history was,. In Pole Position, the player has to complete a lap in a certain amount of time in order to qualify for a race at the racetrack. After qualifying, the player had to face other cars in a championship race. The game was very successful and it spawned an official sequel, and an unofficial one,.

After the success of Pole Position, many similar games appeared in arcades (and later ported to home computers) such as. During the late 1980s, arcades began being dropped in favour of home computer games. Late successful arcade games can be considered, which uses the top view instead of the rear view of most games, and its sequel.

Dawn of the home computer era The first true Formula One racing were and Geoff Crammond's ( F1GP). Chequered Flag featured fuel depletion and car damage, and a set of several real circuits. Previously, most racing games representing Formula One, such as 's and ', had been -style games, but F1GP paid more attention to the physics of the cars, in addition to innovative graphics and accurate rendering of the actual racing tracks. The game, released in, was based on the season. Over the years, the game had sequels, and (based on, with a update, and respectively).

The was also held by and later transferred to Electronic Arts, which created seasonal simulations and also. A notable place on PC simulation games is held by, which depicted the instead of the then-current season, like all other contemporaries.

It recreates in a very accurate way the physics of the car and the feel of driving a real 1967 Formula One racer: for this, even after many years, it is still considered one of the most realistic games ever made. The game still has a vast popularity among video gamers, with many mods and original circuits being produced. Console gaming Beginning from the second part of the 1980s more games were being created for personal computers, which could guarantee an easier and less expensive development.

Most of these games featured racetracks, cars and driver names similar to the real ones, but all modified slightly, since they did not have official licenses from. Examples of this are (and its sequel, which had a license to display only 's name) or, but many other less known games had similar features. The first half of the 1990s saw a growing in popularity of Formula One games, and many software houses began acquiring licences and display most real names and cars, for example by, which featured most real tracks, drivers and teams.

The 3D graphics revolution started by Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix did not go unnoticed by the console market: some software houses began developing games in this style like with its, and later with (which featured futuristic, F1-like cars). The first 3D game to feature a full license was, developed by and released on, the first game of the successful series. Despite the game being a mostly arcade game rather than a simulation, it was very well received; later the series moved towards a more realistic race approach. Other Formula One games released around the same time include and /'s and.

While Formula One games in general are strict reproductions of the sport regardless of gameplay style, ' was the first to bring -style gameplay to the setting, while their official license from FIA (which the company has held since 2009) allowed for the teams (complete with their respective sponsors) and drivers from that year's season to be given a cartoonish makeover. Modern PC simulators As the trend towards software has increased, developers have realised that many video games users like to add their own features to the games, and many modern PC racing games have become easier to.

Games such as, although not primarily a Formula One game, have become somewhat of a development stage. RFactor players can download several mods for various F1 seasons, including 'classic' seasons such as and. The game's makers, have worked with the F1 team to introduce a realistic version of both the and. Sony had held an exclusive license to make Formula One games from 2003 until 2007. Before that it was held by Electronic Arts and before that it was Microprose and the Grand Prix series.

It is now held by, who have released games based around the, and F1 seasons. PS2 and PS3 After was released on (PS1), F1 games were then taken over by (PS2) and. The first being for the PS2, and PS1. In 2002, released a video game called for PS2 and Xbox which runs from the 1999–2002 F1 season with all drivers from each season. In 2003, was released by and published. It was well received by critics.

Although unknown by the most F1 gaming fans, it was praised for high quality graphics for its time. After was released on PS2, and Studio Liverpool released a new version for the in early 2007 called. Has released Formula One racing games for the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and the 2014 seasons for the PlayStation 3. Xbox 360 Codemasters after securing the Licence in 2008, created which was released on the for the first time.

This is based on the, and features all the official drivers and circuits. The game was released in September 2010, and was also released on the PC and.

A sequel to the game -was released in September 2011 and was updated to feature the new drivers and circuits in the, upon which the game was based. The game was initially available for, PC, and. In November 2011, a version of the game was released for the handheld,. PC mods In most PC racing games like, and, players can download mods that enable the game to replicate mostly all seasons of Formula One. This list is; you can help. A list of Formula One video games that lists only those uses the F1 name, whether it is licensed by the or just F1 in name; is licensed by racing drivers and teams involved within the series otherwise featuring sprites that resemble a in a way to get around licensing, featuring deliberately misspelt driver and team names; is named after a Grand Prix race that appear in the F1 calendar or those that features races that appear in the F1 calendar.

Platforms Release Date Developer / Publisher Formula 1 Season 1976 No License 1979 Olympia No License, 1979 / No License, 1980 No License 1980 No License, 1981 No License 1982 / No License 1983 No License Grand Prix 1983 MRH No License Grand Prix 1983 C.R. Wright No License 1983 No License, 1983 / No License 1984 No License 1984 No License, 1984 No License, 1985 No License, /, 1985 Spirit Software/ No License, 1985 G.B. Munday and B.P.

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